Example sentences of "we [verb] a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry to burden you with another Europroblem , but with the growth in cross-border activity , we are getting more and more bright-eyed young journalists that know a foreign language and report back from continental press conferences the English equivalent of exactly what was said in the local language — except that it does n't actually mean anything in English : an august journal — no names to spare any blushes — reports that the boss of IBM Deutschland GmbH said with regard to the company 's figures ‘ we made a decision to place a burden on our financial balance in order to ensure a healthier future ’ … |
| 2 | ‘ So we made a plan to get ourselves off the ship , ’ Dr Livesey went on . |
| 3 | We made a team to give them the opportunity to work together … to give them the respect … to give them the idea that they could be in the top 50 , not by talking but by working together . |
| 4 | His preparations for carrying out work at Arundel Castle , Sussex — a project curtailed by his death — were reported by a correspondent of the antiquary Richard Gough [ q.v. ] in 1787 : ‘ At Greystoke Castle I found Mr. Hiorne the gothic architect , whom the Duke of Norfolk had invited there to consult with relative to his intended repairs at Arundel Castle ; and we made a party to see Alnwick Castle , etc. in Northumberland , for Mr. Hiorne 's information . ’ |
| 5 | unnamed that is not true and I do agree with Mr that when we make a decision to close some homes that they should be named to avoid the terrible indecision which exists at the moment . |
| 6 | Do we build a house to stand for ever , do we seal a contract to hold for all time ? |
| 7 | And eh , he seemed very knowledgeable , I mean we got a job to find him , he has n't actually got a shop , he 's just got a premises . |
| 8 | We got a bamboo-wallah to build them two cages and hung them from hooks on the veranda . |
| 9 | ‘ We got a lot to do , boy . |
| 10 | I feel we need a poet to tell of the contribution made to our Christian Aid Week by those who stay at home and bake so that the baking stall can be kept so magnificently supplied every day . |
| 11 | One could imagine a ‘ price pause ’ for a limited time ; but after that — is there something familiar about all this ? — one would have to start discovering which prices ought to rise and which ought to fall to offset them , and this is just what we want a commission to do for us because we pretend that we do n't know how to do it for ourselves . |
| 12 | By the time we found a space to stand in comfort most of his drink had gone with a gulp . |
| 13 | If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ? |
| 14 | Have we got a credit to come ? |
| 15 | Have we got a lid to put this on ? |
| 16 | Now to start sailing closer towards the wind , we need to pull in the mainsheet , pop the daggerboard down and then turn the boat gently towards the wind , we reach the point where even with the sail sheeted in tightly , the front edge , the luff of the sail is still flapping , that 's as close to the wind as we can get and so we maintain a course to keep the sail full . |
| 17 | If we teach a horse to move to the right away from the pressure of a rider 's leg on their left side ; they do not seem to be able to reason that pressure on the right side is intended to make them move to the left . |
| 18 | If we set a man to paint , he uses an instinctive faculty of ‘ forming ’ , so that out of chaos something communicative emerges . |
| 19 | In other words we get consulted so we get a chance to comment on the planning application when it 's made . |
| 20 | So we 've looked at asking question visuals We 've got involving trainees which , with which we talking about involving trainees think about this side of it erm I suppose this is one of the best ways to show Training should be chunky The idea is that you put in your input yeah you talked around a subject and give you some guidelines , then we get a chance to practise the participation . |
| 21 | We needed a Gofer to drive ‘ MiniMag ’ around the country and I asked if anyone could drive articulated lorries . |
| 22 | We were in their hands and obviously we needed a miracle to get us out . |
| 23 | Our Spanish friend Juan , who had given us so much time , had to work next day , so we needed a replacement to help tackle the bureaucratic process of preparing the body for despatch to Britain . |
| 24 | ‘ We operate a menu to get the best out of the rations , ’ Lamb says . |
| 25 | Why ca n't we have a referendum to stop them doing so again ? — |
| 26 | Did we have a lot to drink ? ’ |
| 27 | Do we have a need to eat meat or to conduct experiments upon animals ? |
| 28 | During the 1990 Cologne Art Fair we initiated a programme to help the Museum of Gotha at Schloss Friedenstein in Thuringia , founded in 1647 as a private collection of the Count of Sachsen-Gotha , which contains antiquities and Northern European painting and sculpture from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries , but no twentieth-century works . |
| 29 | if we suppose a traveller to set out from Venice on March 1 , 1245 , the first day of the Venetian year , he would find himself in 1244 when he reached Florence ; and if after a short stay he went on to Pisa , the year 1246 would already have begun there . |
| 30 | As another example , and totally unrelated to science , a couple of years ago we undertook a project to look into the organisation of a charitable trust . |